Alray International Media Watch section is a daily press tour through selected international websites and newspapers, particularly the Israeli ones.
This section is prepared by Alray Palestinian Media Agency to update its viewers with the most Palestinian top news in the international press.
Yedioth Ahronoth:
The Hamas-affiliated Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar published Saturday an initial draft of the ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, including ten provisions, with every provision constituting a condition for the next one. Further details
The Palestinian factions in Gaza have agreed to temporarily halt the violence on the border in order to chance the Egyptian efforts to reach ceasefire understandings with Israel, a source in the strip told Ynet on Thursday. Further details
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit has determined Israel must not demolish the house of a “terrorist” who is found not responsible for his actions due to mental impairment. Further details
An Instagram account started by eight 16-year-old girls who live in communities near the Gaza border, where they post images that show life under the threat of rockets and incendiary balloons, has become quite popular. Further details
There has been a significant progress in reaching a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, brokered by Egypt and the UN over the past few days, Palestinian sources were cited as saying. Further details
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot reportedly told the parents of Lt. Hadar Goldin, whose body has been held captive by Hamas since 2014, that if the political leadership was prepared to bring him and Israel's other POWs and MIAs back, it could have been done within a week. Further details
The Jerusalem Post:
In the second multiple-casualty accident in a week, six people were killed, and five seriously injured, in an accident on Israel's Route 90 by the Petzael Junction. Further details
A month has passed since the deadly “terrorist” attack at the Barkan Industrial Zone in October, but despite the time and an intensive manhunt by Israel, security forces have yet to put their hands on the “terrorist”. Further details
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday in Sharm el-Sheikh, as part of his country’s efforts toward a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Further details
The association of Jewish students in the German southern state of Bavaria urged the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich to cancel a slated Wednesday pro-boycott Israel event with a hardcore anti-Jewish state activist. Further details
Hamas and the Islamic Jihad have temporarily agreed to halt their violent attacks against Israel until Sunday, including the Friday riots along the border fence, the launching of incendiary balloons and attempts to infiltrate Israel, Ynet reported. Further details
S President Donald Trump’s special representative for international negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, returns to Israel this weekend for continued talks on the administration’s upcoming peace plan. Further details
Palestinian-American writer Susan Abulhawa was detained at Ben-Gurion Airport Thursday and will be deported from the country, according to Israeli and Palestinian officials. Further details
After decades of being accused of turning a blind eye, Israeli authorities are finally beginning to crack down on polygamy in Bedouin society and, to this end, have issued 15 indictments against alleged offenders. Further details
The Ministerial Committee on Legislation will vote Sunday on a controversial bill that would allow the IDF to expel family members of “terrorists” from their region of the West Bank to another within a week of the attack. Further details
The parents of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, killed during the 2014 Gaza War, slammed the government on Sunday for working to achieve a ceasefire deal with Hamas but not including the return of the missing soldiers as part of the deal. Further details
The Times of Israel:
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi has reportedly urged Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to accept a “graded reconciliation” with Hamas as part of a deal that would see the 82-year old take control of the Gaza Strip. Further details
The parents of an Israeli soldier whose remains are being held in the Gaza Strip on Saturday said the IDF chief of staff had told them the Israeli government could see their son’s body returned within a week if it willed it. Further details
The right-wing Jewish Home party on Sunday will seek coalition support for a bill to forcibly relocate the families of Palestinian “terrorists” and would-be attackers within the West Bank. Further details
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi met on Saturday in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm al-Sheikh, the official PA news agency Wafa reported. Further details
During a recent sermon at the Islamic Center of South Florida, an imam called for the “liberation” of Palestine, even at the cost of tens of millions of Muslim lives. Further details
Six people were killed in a frontal collision between a truck and a minibus on Route 90 in the Jordan Valley Sunday morning. Further details
An emerging cease-fire agreement aimed at calming months of violence on the Israel-Gaza border will last for three years and see a significant easing of the blockade on the Hamas-controlled territory, Lebanon’s Al-Akbar newspaper reported Saturday. Further details
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly with Oman’s foreign minister in February, helping lay the foundations for the premier’s visit to the Gulf sultanate last month, Israeli television reported Friday. Further details
A Palestinian-American writer has been detained on arrival at Israel’s main airport and will be deported, Palestinian and Israeli officials said Friday. Further details
An Egyptian security delegation toured the Gaza border protests Friday, and even though thousands of Palestinians turned up, they were the quietest in several months, witnesses said. Further details
The Knesset speaker, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, said Sunday morning that the 1995 assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin had “no historical impact,” as politicians bashed each other in the aftermath of a divisive Tel Aviv memorial rally for Rabin a day earlier. Further details
